PHP Developer Contracts in South Wales

PHP Developer
Wales > South Wales

The median PHP Developer daily rate in South Wales is £545 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 55 69
Rank change year-on-year +22 +14 -14
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Developer 8 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.36% 0.58% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.65% 0.61% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 5
10th Percentile £413 £341 -
25th Percentile £488 £366 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year +32.12% -2.94% +41.67%
75th Percentile £551 £509 £438
90th Percentile £891 £564 -
Wales median daily rate £540 £431 £425
% change year-on-year +25.22% +1.47% +41.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in South Wales with a recognized job title 302 490 874
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.09% 94.59% 96.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 377 653
10th Percentile £172 £180 £200
25th Percentile £350 £325 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £575
90th Percentile £644 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 26 35
10th Percentile £11.75 £13.00 £11.15
25th Percentile £15.20 £16.98 £11.70
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +10.61%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.98 £25.38
90th Percentile £87.80 £49.38 £47.19
Wales median hourly rate £19.09 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +5.21% -8.89% +20.58%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings that featured PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in South Wales

PHP Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for PHP Developer in South Wales

PHP Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in South Wales over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP Developer in South Wales

PHP Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for PHP Developer in South Wales

PHP Developer
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff +16 8 £545 +32.12% 1
PHP Developer
Wales

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, PHP Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Wales region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) PHP
1 8 (100.00%) Laravel
1 8 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) Postman
2 7 (87.50%) Cypress.io
2 7 (87.50%) React
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) MySQL
2 7 (87.50%) Linux
3 6 (75.00%) Project Management
3 6 (75.00%) QA
3 6 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (75.00%) GitLab
3 6 (75.00%) Vue
3 6 (75.00%) GitHub
3 6 (75.00%) Relational Database
3 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (75.00%) Product Ownership
4 4 (50.00%) Analytics
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (37.50%) Azure
6 2 (25.00%) AWS
6 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
6 2 (25.00%) Docker
6 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
6 2 (25.00%) SQL
7 1 (12.50%) HTML
7 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) GitHub
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) MySQL
2 6 (75.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Cypress.io
1 7 (87.50%) Postman
2 6 (75.00%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Laravel
2 7 (87.50%) React
3 6 (75.00%) Vue
4 1 (12.50%) CSS
4 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 1 (12.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (75.00%) Project Management
3 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (50.00%) Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
6 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
6 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft